Bedstead rail-hanger.



frane/for Patented May 25, 1909.

P. JENSEN. BEDSTEAD RAIL HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED DEG. 26, 1908.

UNTTED STATES ATENT FFTCE.

PETER JENSEN, OF HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO MANHATTAN BEDDING COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

BEDSTEAD RAIL-HANGER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, PETER JENsEN, a citizen of the United States, residing in Hoboken, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in BedsteadRail- Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

The present improvement relates to couplings for securing the side rails of mattress frames to the bed posts, the object of the invention being to provide an improved rail hanger comparatively simple in construction and which can be produced at low cost, but which is very effective to secure a rail to the post, which hanger is also provided with improved means for attachment of the rail and the metallic fabric thereto.

A further object of the invention is the provision of an improved rail hanger which may be wedged in position on the post of the bed without the necessityT vof providing such hanger with wedging surfaces either in the form of grooves or shoulders interior-ly thereof or in the rear of the front face of such hanger, and thereby very much simplify the construction and secure a more positive locking of the parts.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side view of a bedstead with this improved coupling securing the side rail to the posts, the coupling being exaggerated; Fig, 2 is a vertical sectional view of one form of this improved coupling or hanger Fig. 3 is a face view thereof; Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view of another form of this improved hanger; Fig. 5 is a face view thereof; Fig. 6 is a vertical sectional view of a somewhat different form of this improved hanger; Fig. 7 is a top view thereof g Fig. 8 is a sectional view taken in line 8 8 of Fig. 6; and Fig. 9 is a vertical sectional view of a somewhat different form of rail hanger.

Similar characters ofv reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the different figures of the drawings.

l am aware that various forms of rail hangers have been devised for securing the side rails of a mattress frame to the posts of a bed, by wedging such hangers on to rivets secured to the posts. But most of these constructions are more or less complicated by Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 26, 1908.

Patented May 25, 1909.

Serial N0. 469,397.

the provision of wedging surfaces in the form of grooves or shoulders located interiorly or in the rear of the front face of the hanger, sometimes necessitating the forma tion of a groove within a groove as it were.

The object, therefore, of the present improvement is to do away with these wedging surfaces located in the rear of the front face of the coupling and thereby very much simplify the construction, while at the same time securing a much more effective wedging of the coupling in position by reason of the fact that the inner surface of the head of the rivet can engage throughout its entire width the face of `the hanger.

In the embodiment of this improved hanger shown it comprises a coupling portion 2, a metallic fabric-receiving portion 3, and a side rail supporting or receiving portion 4. The hanger comprises a casting 5 having on its front face a socket or tubular portion 6 forming a recess for the reception of a tubular siderail 7, the lower wall of the socket being provided with a projection 8 adapted to fit into a slot in the end of the side-rail to revent turning thereof within its socket. his socket, in the present instance, is shown as having a forwardly projecting portion or hood 9 adapted to extend out over the top of the rail and engage the same and so increase the bearing of the hanger upon the rail. This hood portion is united by a web 10 with an upwardly extending portion 11 forming a supporting portion for the cross or end bar 34 of a metallic fabric 35. rlhis upwardly extending portion 11 is provided at its rear side with a shoulder 12 and has an opening 13 for the reception of a rivet by means of which one end of the cross bar 34 carrying the metallic fabric 35, constituting the mattress support, is secured to the hanger. rThis cross bar may be of various forms and have the metallic fabric connected thereto invarious ways. ln the form shown it comprises an angle iron one edge 17 of which rests upon the shoulder 12 such cross bar being riveted to the upwardly extending portion 11 of the hanger, while the horizontal portion 18 of the cross bar, to which the fabric may be at tached in any suitable way as by being hooked thereto or clamped thereon, extends forwardly over the top of the cross bar supporting portion 11. By having the hood of the rail-receiving socket extend forwardly over the top of the rail the strain of the tensioned fabric on the upwardly extending portion 1l comes, to a large extent, upon the l rail instead of entirely upon the post.

The coupling portion 2 of the hanger comprises a de ending portion 2O extending below the rai -receiving socket and provided-in itsrear face with a groove 2l which extends upwardly to the shoulder 12. This depending portion 2O has a key-hole formed slot 36 therein for the reception of a rivet 22 which is secured to the post, usually by being headed on one side and projecting beyond the face of the post on the opposite side and having an enlarged head, the head in the assembling of the hanger entering the enlarged portion of the slot to permit the shank of the rivet or stud to pass into the narrower portion thereof as the hanger is pressed down.

It is desirable that the hanger be wedged in position on the rivet, and I accomplish this in several ways without the necessity of forming shoulders within the key-hole slot, or grooves or shoulders in the rear thereof. In the forni shown in Figs. 2 and 3 the outer or front face of the depending portion is inclined, as at 25, relatively to its rear face. In the form shown in Figs. 4 and 5 this inclined face 25 extends upwardly only to a point above the key-hole slot, while in the construction shown in Fig. 6 this inclined portion is obtained by curving, as convexing, the front face of the depending portion longitudinally, as at 26, and if' preferred, by also curving or convexing the same at both sides of the slot transversely, as shown at 27 in Fig. 8, in which case the rivet would preferably have its head formed with a curved inner wall, as at 37, whereby the surfaces of the rivet and hanger would have an extended bearing one upon the other in just the saine way that the inclined surfaces of the hangers in the other forms shown have an extended bearing throughout the entire flat inner surface of the rivet head.

Instead of inclining the front face of the depending portion of the hanger casting I accomplish the same purpose by forming at the top of the post-receiving groove a projection or boss 38, the post-engaging face of which is in a line with the post-'engaging face at the lower end 28 of the hanger when the hanger is in engagement with the post, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. Q. When the hanger fits against the straight face of the post the front face of the depending portion of the hanger will be thrown into an inclined plane, the socket-receiving portion being at right angles to the face of the post, so that the metallic fabrics will be level. In this form when the hanger is detached and the depending part is perfectly straight the socket-receiving portion will be slightly tilted upward above its horizontal position.

The same result could be obtained, of course, by tapering the rear wall of the depending portion of the bracket or hanger.

In the forni of hanger shown in Figs. 4 and 5, this forni being adapted for the reception of an angle iron side rail instead of a tubular side rail, the rail-receiving portion comprises Jar-recess 30 formed by a pair of parallelly extending meinbers 31 and 32, one of which, as the lower, is preferably of greater length than the other and is provided with an opening 33 for the-reception of a rivet by means hanger.

In practice the hanger, one at each corner of the metallic fabric and therefore one at each end of a side rail, is slipped on to the headed rivet or stud of the post and forced downwardly, whereupon it becomes wedged in position in a manner which will be readily understood.

I claim as my invention:

1. A rail hanger comprising a bracket having a grooved rear face to fit a post and an upwardly extending offset portion for the attachment of a mattress frame, and below said offset portion at the front thereof a side rail attaching portion, and below said side rail attaching portion a depending portion one of the walls of which is tapered downwardly to the end thereof, said depending portion having a stud receiving slot therein.

2. A rail hanger comprising a bracket having a grooved rear face to fit a post and an upwardly extending offset portion for the attachment of a mattress frame, and below said offset portion, at the front thereof, a side rail attaching portion comprising means having one part thereof projecting beyond the other, and below said side rail attaching portion a depending portion one of the walls of which is tapered downwardly to the end thereof, said depending portion having a key-hole stud receiving slot therein'.

3. A rail hanger comprising a bracket having a grooved rear face to fit a post and an upwardly extending offset portion for the attachment of a mattress frame, and below said offset portion, at the front thereof, a socket having therein a projection for preventing the turning of said rail, and said bracket having below said socket a depending portion one of the walls of which is tapered downwardly to the end thereof, said depending portion having a key-hole `stud receiving slot therein.

4. A rail hanger comprising a bracket havtaclunent of a mattress frame, and below said offset portion, at the front thereof, a side rail attaching portion, and below said side rail attaching portion a depending portion the of which the side rail may be attached to the for receiving a tubular side rail, said socket ing a grooved rear face to fit a post and an upwardly extending offset portion for the at- 1 front wall of which is tapered downwardly to the end thereof, said depending portionhaving a key-hole stud receiving slot therein.

5. A rail hanger comprising a bracket hav ing a grooved rear face to fit a post and at the front thereof a socket for the reception of a tubular side rail, said socket having therein a projection for preventing the turning of said rail, and said bracket having below said socket a depending portion one of trie walls of which is tapered downwardly to the end thereof, said depending portion having a key-hole stiid receiving slot therein.

6. The combination with a post having a headed stud, of a rail hanger coinprising a bracket having a grooved rear face to fit the post and an upwardly extending offset portion for the attachment of a inattress fraine and below said oiffset portion, at the front thereof, a side rail attaching portion, and below said side rail attaching portion a dependl ing portion having a key-hole stud receiving l slot for the reception of the stud on the post,

the hanger being so forined that one wall of the depending portion will be inclined to the lower end thereof to the vertical face of the post. l

7. The combination with a post having a l, headed stud, of a rail hanger comprising a i bracket having a grooved rear face to fit the i post and an iipwari'ily extending offset porl tion for the attachment of a mattress fraine and below said offset portion, at the front l thereof, a side rail attaching portion, and below said side rail attaching portion a dependinO' )ortion havinO a ke -hole stud receivin g slot for the reception of the stud on the post, the hanger being so formed that the front wall of the depending portion will be inclined to the lower' end thereof to the vertical face of the post.

8. The combination with a post having a headed stud, of a rail hanger comprising a bracket adapted to directly engage said post and having a groove on its rear face adapted to fit the post and at the front thereof a side rail attaching portion, and below said side rail attaching portion a depending portion, said bracket having one of the walls thereof tapered downwardly to the lower end 'thereof and having below said side rail attaching portion and in the depending portion a keyhole stud receiving slot.

9. The combination with a post having a headed stud, of a rail hanger having a groove on its rear face to fit the post, and a boss in said groove the post-engaging lace of which is in line with the lower post-engaging end of i the hanger whereby the front face of said hanger will be inclined to the vertical face ol the post, said hanger having a stud receiving recess therein.

PETER JENSEN.

Elitnesses C. A. WEED, T. E. Boron. 

